COUNTRY NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12856, 14 December 1912, Page 2

COUNTRY NOTES.

(By Our Westmere Correspondent.) The granmer came down toy the express from Auckland. Better late than never. Bees especially are rejoicing. You unay scarcely credit it, that beemen have had to keep on feeding with sugar to maintain their apiaries in health and working condition, so very backward has the honey flaw ibeen in flower and blossom.

Dairymen ought to (take- a little more interest, for their pocket's sake, in the testing of their cows. At a local Bale in the sprimg some one sold cows at the usual law level of. discarded prices. A milking man picked u/p one of the animals far £4 10s. She took a. prize in her ekes at the .recent Wanganua Show: and is one of the best milkers and' birt-ter-fat producers in the herd to which she now belongs

There's money in cows at A. and P. Shows in these days. One dairyman entered two of his cows and Scooped u/p nine solid quid. Deducting expenses his neib gains were something like £7 10s. At the Wa-nganui Show ? Yes. It ie said that owing to^ the wet spring preventing several igrain-groiwers from putting in oats and 'wheat, that a larger area than formerly will foe seeded down in turnips iand rape. If the season favours tjhose feeding stuffs there will be a big autumnal demand for lambs and store sheep. Within the last few weeks rsvo havo had same interesting visitors. Two come from England and Ibelonjg to the free-hold/ing farming, or yeoman class —one from Surrey and the other from Warwick. Their views and comments on what they've seen in our Dominion, are both >breezy and refreshing. Their praisea of the country and its outlook and evident resources vwuld .make some of my farmer readers as proud: as pipers, but all the same their commendations were not unmixed as to certain possible defects and drawbacks and probalble dangers abetad. Questioned .as to why the landed and other classes were up in arms against Lloyd Oeorgo and hia reforms, they replied something after the following:—"lt's, his manner much more than his measures that w« fietest. He has a rasping tongue and ia brutal way of expressing himself, that rubs we Saxons down the .wrong way. Granted/ that when you go and listen to him speaking, he's not so objectionable, Ibut it's fatal to read him. Then we could give you instances whe.re some of our employees have come to/us and said1: 'We don't wa,nit to be forced into paying this weekly insurance. We have no*sickness in our families. We always have steady work. We live in (healthy homes and breath pure air and yet we :are albout to be compelled (to, contrtibute 4>ha same wtepkly (premiuma as those who live in cities, towns and villages. It's not fair nor just!" Another of our visitors is la gentleman who belongs to quite another order of the British puiblic. He has i^pent some little time either in your town or in its near \ neighbourhoodl and he's iquietly studying the. under-thought currents and tihe outer manifestations of our life and .movements, socially and ■economically. In answer to the question, "WeM, what do y©u ithink of us .colonials? "he replied: "YouVe young <and refreshing, but 'a little crude perhaps. You're self -^confidence may carry you through. All the same, you'll make a few. mistakes and those in your good luck may teach and guide you much more than your innate wisdom or discretion. The speeches of your public •men. are undoubtedly eunfacely practical as to present and apparent needs, ibut there is a greiat lack of that deeper thought which, comes from dear thinking, cool reading, historical guidance and the application to the imagination of philosophic deduction. Take, for example; a movement which is probably on the eve of agitating your whole iDominion, the misnamed ißilble in schoole topic. It is not a question at all of introducing the Bible, sper se, into your list of national ipuiblic school •books. I notice a writer of some literary parts in hia opntrfbuitions to your locial evening newspaper, treats the sufo^ ject on the ratheri antiquiated toes of: the ra/bid freethought lecturers of 30 years ago/ As aliteraTy" iproduct»ibniiJiri the modern high level of thought, the Bible is. no /longer subjected to siiph iconography, so thiat this con/triibutor is either wilfully suppressing, or is ibehind the scholarship of the <ag«. To-day, ■when I (looked over the morning print I saw that a Roman Catholic Bishop voiced what might 'be termed the unchanging and unalterable policy of the Vatican on the question, and in lanolther column a speech by some citizen at the inception of a branch of the. Niational Schools Defence League. This utterance is doubtless greatly condensed, but it appeared to'me to Ibe something one would have listened;' unito from a platform rationalist twenty-five years ago. Of late years the whole trend of thought in leading state-churchmen and free-churchmen is to remove the question from the ecclesiastiaal stand-point and to place it iwithin the sphere of the ifunotions of the state to bring education to foear ujpoii the ethical citizenship of the children. In your State system of ■education ais at present conducted, you cannot laffiran that the whole human circumference of a child's nature is being developed or educated. The social land moral self-preservation of the State demands some revision of your educational system. In short, Then, the question is entirely to be dissociated from parsons and preachers and concerns the entire body politic." Our fourth visitor to the locality was a gentteim>an who greatly revelled in the scenic beauties of Wanganui and district. Especially delighted uvas -he with the soift, delicate green of the grain .and grass paddocks.

LIFE AFFECTED BY LIVER. When the Liver goes wrong it "ocs to sleep, the work of clearing all tho poisonous substances from the bodv ceases, and they are absorbed by the 'tii Tho lungs do their best to purify the blood and tho poisons which are eliminated through them ma!;o the breath (oul. Every organ of tho bodv is handicapped by the impure blood* causing palpitation of the heart etc' Very quickly tho delicate cells of the brain become afflicted, causing headaches, sleepiness (especially after meals) clul! eyex bad memory, more tired and sleepy when you wake than on retiring a£ £ Inck of inter <?st in thine* which should interest you most, and Life has no joy W- you. Tho cure. Take one ,»r two of Baxter's Compound Quinine Pills three times a dav, half an hour before meals. Theso Pills taken on an empty stomach have full pW on all the Digestive _ Organs. They stir up the torpid Stiver and set it working again and after a few doses you feel that the'tiredness and langour aro' leaving 3-0:1 th* breath becomes sweet, tho ton<£uo clean fn« tho sallow complexion gives place to tho bloom of health. Persons who lead sedentary lives shoukl alwavs keep these pills by them and take a 'doseon tho -first sign of stomach or liver trouble, and they will bo quicklv restored to pristine health and vigour, in very severe cases, the sufferer should avoid Porridge, Boiled Puddings. Cakes, Sweets. New Bread, Etc., taking menty of Grills ' (Underdone), Toast" *ish. # Poultry, etc. Baxter's Compound Quinine Pilis procurable at all Chemists or direct from J. Baxter and Co Christchurch at Is 6d a l>ox. Seo that -hey ro silver coated t-j insure the full results